Shortest

Examples

• When you want to comfort a woman by the shortest way, take her on your knee. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• My shortest way lay through the Basse-Ville, and as the night was excessively dark, wild, and wet, I took it. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The form of the tubes is an oval, 17 feet in its longest diameter, and 12 feet in its shortest. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Men are unwilling to leave property in suspense, even for the shortest time, or open the least door to violence and disorder. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• What is the best way, Thuvia, the shortest way out of this celestial Hades? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I'll tell you what education is—To be tumbled out of doors, neck and crop, and put upon the shortest allowance of everything except blows. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• My shortest way home,--and I naturally took the shortest way on such a night--was through St. Martin's Lane. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is true, mathematicians pretend they give an exact definition of a right line, when they say, it is the shortest way betwixt two points. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Taking the shortest way to the boathouse, he waited for them to appear, but no one came, and he went up the hill to take an observation. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I can do it without Mr. Snagsby, of course, but this is the shortest way. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This fleet sailed round, while I went back the shortest way to the coast, where I first discovered the boat. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The shortest way is to make your value felt, so that people must put up with you whether you flatter them or not. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The paper thus prepared is very sensitive, and will receive an impression in the camera in the shortest possible time. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• That's business, said Mr. Lorry, resuming on the shortest notice his methodical manners; and if business is to be done, I had better do it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It's the shortest way that I can see, my lady, to the end we have in view. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I walked forward a few paces on the shortest way back to London, then stopped and hesitated. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Editor: Ronda